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[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net>
>
>woodelf wrote:
>>
>> Bill Sudbrink wrote:
>>
>> >OK Sellam, come clean.  What have you managed to acquire?
>> >
>> The hard copy must be 3 or 4 lbs at least.  Ducks and runs ...
>
>I have a good bit more than that!
>
>Three copy paper boxes full of documentation (appropriate because a lot
>of the originally supplied OSI docs were just photocopies, stapled together)
>and two more full of the "glossy" docs.  The "glossy" docs being the extra
>books that they sold, the SAMs manuals, the marketing lit that they also
>sold
>(did any other company sell their product description pamphlets?) and the
>few
>price sheets and pages that they gave away.  I also have some product
>descriptions and price sheets for a couple of OSI third party add-on
>companies
>in those boxes.
>
>> Ben alias woodelf
>> PS. The impressive thing is that the people with the large computer
>> collections have vast amounts of knowlage about the computers
>> they have. Something that a average collector does not seem to have
>> now days.
>
>Well, I like to think that I know a few things about OSI but I'll take
>this opportunity to make a confession.  I've said several times on this
>list that you can't make a C4P into a C4P-MF by just adding a 470 board
>to it.  This was told to me in 1981 by a tech at a local OSI reseller,
>The Math Box.  I never checked it out for myself.  Well, I just did (last
>week) and (with OS-65D v3.3) it works just fine as far as I can tell.  I
>don't know if I misunderstood what the guy was telling me back then or if
>he was just wrong.  I'm thinking maybe that the 470s came adjusted from
>the factory for 8 inch floppy timing and he was trying to tell me that
>you couldn't use one with 5 1/4 inch drives without modifications.
>
>Glad to get that off my chest,
>Bill
>

Hi Bill
 I'm glad also. Now I can sleep in peace. ;)
 I only have one of these machines but I forget which one.
I just checked that it booted and haven't played with it
since ( still on my to do list ). It is in a box with a
keyboard attached as part of the box.
Dwight